Lupe Valdez

Lupe Valdez (11 October 1947-) was Sheriff of Dallas County from 1 June 2005 to 6 December 2017 and the unsuccessful 2018 Texas Democratic gubernatorial candidate.

Biography
Guadalupe Valdez was born in San Antonio, Texas on 11 October 1947, the youngest of eight children born to Mexican migrant farm worker parents. She worked in the fields to pay for her college education, and she reached the rank of Captain in the US Army Reserve before starting her law enforcement career as a jailer. From 2002 to 2004, she was a Senior Agent for the Department of Homeland Security, and she retired in 2004 to successfully run for Dallas County Sheriff. After 2010, she ensured that the Dallas County Jail began to pass state and federal inspections, and she served as Sheriff for three terms. In 2018, she ran for Governor of Texas as the Democratic nominee, but she lost to the Republican incumbent Greg Abbott with just 43% of the vote.